Milt Hinton film on PBS

[brownie]

A documentary on the late musician and photographer Milt Hinton will be featured on PBS next month.

From Playbill:

Documentary About Milt Hinton, Jazz Bassist and Photographer, to Air on PBS in April

By Emily Quinn

March 9, 2005

A documentary about jazz bassist Milt Hinton will have air on PBS stations on April 12.Keeping Time: The Life, Music, and Photographs of Milt Hinton was made by David G. Berger, Holly Maxon, and Kate Hirson. The film looks not only at Hinton’s musical career, but at his photographic work. Hinton took over 60,000 photographs of the world of American music (including photographs taken at the famous 1958 Esquire gathering of jazz greats in Harlem) and of the evolution of American society, from the Jim Crow South onward, as seen by a traveling musician.

The film, which premiered in 2003 at the TriBeCa Film Festival, includes interviews with, among others, Amiri Baraka, Gregory Hines, Nat Hentoff, Quincy Jones, Branford Marsalis, Doc Cheatham, Joe Williams, and George Wein.

During Hinton’s seven-decade career he performed with myriad great musicians, including Frank Sinatra, Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles, and Barbara Streisand, and almost all of the jazz greats, including Dizzy Gillespie (with whom he played in Cab Calloway’s band).

Keeping Time is presented as part of PBS’s Independent Lens series; check local listings for details.

Edited March 9, 2005 by brownie

[Rooster_Ties]

I saw this sometime in late 2003 as part of a film festival here in Kansas City --- and it was wonderful. Don't miss it!!

[Michael Fitzgerald]

YES!!!!

Saw this in November 2003 - a beautiful film with a great soundtrack. It really does the job right. I am just thrilled to death to know that David Berger was able to overcome some of the obstacles he spoke about at the time - boy, film rights are a bitch! Pray that we may even see a DVD in the future.

Mike

[mrjazzman]

Ms. Quinn states that Milt Hinton played in Cab Calloway's band with Dizzy Gillespie. the other two trumpets in the section were Mario Bauza and my Grandfather Lamar Wright Sr..........

[Rooster_Ties]

I've got a flyer I picked up when I saw it, with some details about the film. No tellin' if I can find it, but I'll keep my eyes out for it.

This really was an amazing film, and I too am thrilled they've gotten the legal stuff figured out for broadcast, and hopefully for a DVD too.

Edited March 10, 2005 by Rooster_Ties

[jazzbo]

Mrjazzman, your grandfather? BIG

Edited March 10, 2005 by jazzbo

[brownie]

Mrjazzman, your grandfather? BIG

Indeed!

Was your grandfather the Lamar Wright who was in the Dizzy Gillespie big band that played at the Salle Pleyel in Paris in 1948? That concert is still spoken of in awe by those who were lucky to have attended it!

[bertrand]

Is there a law that states that every jazz documentary must feature at least one Marsalis?

Bertrand.

[Michael Fitzgerald]

Well, come on - Branford Marsalis actually recorded an album with Milt Hinton. The other one talks about how trumpet players who never recorded, who stopped playing and were imprisoned fifty years before he was born sounded.

I can't really recall the BM content, but it must have been pretty painless.

Mike

[marcello]

My regard for Branford rose quite a bit when I read a recent interview where he said that that record with Milt Hinton (Trio Jeepy) was a misstake and should not have been released.

[Michael Fitzgerald]

Apologies for the last minute notice - this film is airing in NYC on channel 13/WNET in about 3 minutes.

Mike

[makpjazz57]

Unless I missed something at WGBH's website, this film won't be on PBS in Boston until April 13 at 5 in the morning.

Marla